What are some useless but fun facts about movies?

 Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight has seen the film Jerry Maguire and apparently is a fan. Or, if not a fan per se, he is certainly aware of Jerry Maguire’s pop culture impact.

If this seems like insane supposition, hear me out, because I can prove it.

In the scene where Batman interrogates the Joker, the Joker, with more than a touch of melodrama, says “You complete me.”

(The Joker has one strange sense of humor.)

For anyone who didn’t notice, that’s a direct quote from Jerry Maguire.

This would mean in the Christopher Nolan Batman universe Cameron Crowe was cranking out films just as he did in the real world. It would also mean enough people were watching them that quoting them would still be a thing.

As a side note, it would also suggest that Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding, Jr. are all characters within Nolan’s world.

What are some useless, but interesting, pieces of information you know?

 1. Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji on his first voyage, yet managed to completely miss mainland Australia. How that happened I’ll never know.

2. Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, some people actually think he doesn’t deserve it.

3. Yassir Arafat and Henry Kissinger both won the Nobel Peace Prize. Amazing right?

4. It is arguably believed that the D in “D-day” stands for day. So day-day?

5. The Finnish capital of Helsinki was founded by a Swedish king in 1550. I don’t think this is useless.

6. The U.S. and the British fought the bloodless “War of Pork and Beans” in 1839.

7. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

8. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36. Interesting. But who even has the time to check that?

9. If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw. I haven’t tried this, but if you do let me know.

10. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of painted plaster for 3 years. After the war, the Academy invited the recipients to redeem the plaster awards for gold-plated ones.

11. Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year. This one though. 

What are some useless facts that are too fun to read?

 The Australian $10 bill used to have a picture of a colonial architect originally convicted for forgery.

There are more bacteria in the average person’s mouth than there are people on the earth

You are more likely to die on your way to buying a lottery ticket then winning the lottery.

Every US President with a beard has been a Republican.

In 1647 the British Long Parliament banned Christmas

The first US marines recruiting station was in a bar

Clement Vallanddigham accidently shot and killed himself in 1871 while demonstrating how a victim may have accidently killed himself.

The chess term checkmate comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat” which means “the king is helpless”

The US president during WW1 was Woodrow Wilson. He married his second wife, the widow Edith Galt in December 1915. Some months prior to the marriage, President Wilson took his fiance to a social evening at a theatre. The Washington Post carried a front page story about the visit. Unfortunately there was a typo in the article. The Post had meant to say: “The President gave himself up for the time being to entertaining his fiancee”. Instead it said: “The President gave himself up for the time being to entering his fiancee”. The typo caused a lot of hilarity (and some ribaldry) at the time.

So they don’t become too heavy to fly, vampire bats urinate while drinking blood.

In 1940 two planes collided. They remained stuck together but landed safely. No lives were lost.

The light from a firefly shines out of its anus

Lions and Tigers are attracted to catnip.

The Bible has been translated into Klingon

The WW2 British submarine HMS Trident had a reindeer named Pollyanna on board for 6 weeks in 1941

Strawberries are not actually berries.

Human skin flakes make up 75% of house dust

Peruvians consume approximately 60 million guinea pigs a year.

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General Knowledge and

Trivia for the Toilet by Katie Read Lagoon Books London

What are some useless yet interesting facts?

 One of the most useless things to know is ‘To know about celeb’s.’

I wonder why some people are more interested in the lives of their favorite actors and artists rather than in their own lives.

So, I want share about some famous artists around the globe who got banned in some countries, and the reason behind that.

Justin Bieber

Banned from: Argentina and China

Reason: Bieber allegedly assaulted a photographer in Argentina and disrespected the country's flag during a concert. He's also banned from China for being a "badly behaved entertainer."

Chris Brown

Banned from: the UK and Australia.

Reason: Chris isn't allowed entry in these two countries because of his domestic violence conviction. Brown was found guilty of assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

Brad Pitt

Banned from: China.

Reason: Pitt is not allowed in China because of his movie 'Seven Years in Tibet.' The film depicts the 14th Dalai Lama in a positive way and shines a negative light on Communist military officers.

Selena Gomez

Banned from: China and Russia.

Reason: Selena was banned from Russia for supporting LGBTQ rights. She was barred from entering China over a picture she took with the Dalai Lama.

The Beatles

Banned from: The Philippines.

Reason: In 1966, the band were banned from the Philippines after declining a breakfast invitation from the country's First Lady.

Lady Gaga

Banned from: Indonesia.

Reason: The Muslim community in Indonesia banned Gaga from entering the country. The Islamic Defenders Front called her a "destroyer of morals."

Harrison Ford

Banned from: China.

Reason: Ford has been denied entry in China since 1995 for his outspoken stance on Tibet's independence.

Akon

Banned from: Sri Lanka.

Reason: The singer is banned from Sri Lanka because his 'Sexy Chick' video features a raunchy pool party in front of a Buddha statue.

Katy Perry

Banned from: China.

Reason: Katy Perry has apparently been banned from China for wearing a Taiwanese flag during one of her concerts.

Mike Tyson

Banned from: New Zealand.

Reason: This former boxer was denied entry into New Zealand for his 1992 rape conviction, according to The Guardian.

Christian Slater

Banned from: Canada.

Reason: Slater is banned from Canada because of a past DUI conviction.

Jon Bon Jovi

Banned from: China.

Reason: The whole of the Bon Jovi band were banned from China for featuring an image of the Dalai Lama during a concert in Taiwan.

Lily Allen

Banned from: United States.

Reason: Even though the ban has since been lifted, the singer wasn't allowed to enter the US in 2007 after she was arrested for hitting a paparazzi in London.

Martin Scorsese

Banned from: China.

Reason: The director's 1997 movie 'Kundun' angered Chinese officials for its portrayal of the Dalai Lama's early years.

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What is the most useless fact you know?

 Origami cranes are recognized internationally as symbols of peace.

The reason behind this, and why folding origami cranes became so popular is through the story of Sadako Sasaki.

Sadako Sasaki was only two years old, and living one mile from ground zero when Hiroshima was bombed.

As a Hiroshima survivor, Sadako went on to lead a fairly normal and happy childhood until she became ill at age 11. Her symptoms were diagnosed as leukemia as a result of exposure to radiation from Hiroshima.

Sadako’s symptoms worsened quickly and doctors estimated she had at most one year to live. While she was in the hospital, her classmates brought her origami cranes. It was then that she learned of the Ancient Japanese legend of the cranes.

The crane was a highly regarded animal in Japanese folklore, thought to live a thousand years. Legend said that the gods will grant a wish to anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes.

After learning of the legend, Sadako set a goal of folding a thousand cranes. She would spend her time working towards her goal, using medicine wrappings, patients’ gift wrap, and whatever paper she could find at the hospital.

Sadako said of the cranes,

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

When Sadako died of leukemia at age 12, stories differ on whether she was able to achieve her goal of folding a thousand cranes. Regardless of whether she reached her goal, the story of how she braved her illness while folding the cranes began to spread.

After her death, a statue of Sasaki holding a crane was erected in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

After September 11, people left paper cranes near Ground Zero in tribute to those who were lost. These paper cranes were eventually added to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, along with thousands of cranes donated by Japanese students.

Sadako’s family, through the Sadako Legacy also donated one of Sadako’s cranes to the September 11 museum. They have gone on to donate Sadako’s paper cranes to various places as a message of peace, and to those in need of healing.

After the Fukushima meltdown, the 9/11 family association returned the gesture and donated a crane welded from World Trade Center debris to Japan. The crane now rests in Koriyama, less than 50 miles from the meltdown.

Because of Sasaki, the origami crane has become an international symbol of peace, hope, and healing. And numerous people around the world have also set their own goals of making a thousand origami cranes.

What is the most useless fact you know?

 The Most kissed face of all time!

Any idea of who she is?

Chances are that quite a few of us might have kissed her too!

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Let’s get back to history.

In the late 1800s, body of a young Parisian woman was found in the Seine river at the Quai Du Luvre in Paris.

Her body didn’t have any marks of violence or external injury and thus is was assumed that she had committed suicide by drowning.

Her body was carried on to a mortuary and the pathologist present there got so smitten by her looks that he ordered a moulder to take a death mask of her face.

No one did ever identify the perfect, blemish-free body. But casts of the beautiful white plaster mask was sold across Paris, then across Europe.

It hung in the studios of artists and writers from Man Ray to Albert Camus, who described the calm, slightly smiling woman as a "drowned Mona Lisa". Some estimated the age of the model to be 16 years given the firmness of the skin.

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Generations later, the Girl from the River Seine was rediscovered when Asmund S. Laerdal began the development of a realistic and effective training aid to teach mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

He believed that if such a manikin was life-sized and extremely realistic in appearance, students would be better motivated to learn this lifesaving procedure.

Moved by the story of the girl so tragically taken by early death, he fashioned her mask for the face of his new resuscitation training mannequin,

Resusci Anne.

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Resusci Anne was developed by the Norwegian toy maker Asmund laerdel and the Austrian-Czech physician Peter safar and American physician James Elam.

and is produced by the company Laerdal Medical.

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So the most kissed face of all time is of L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the Seine) or what we call CPR Annie.

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I am sure, the next time you see a CPR mannequin, you’d remember the face of the lovely unknown french girl.

CPR lessons from now on would never be the same ! :p

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Metalhead

Footnotes

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Angelique Chrisafis on the Ophelia of the Seine

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The Girl from the River Seine

[3] 

Resusci Anne - Wikipedia

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L'Inconnue de la Seine - Wikipedia